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Tuxera Claims NTFS Is The Fastest File-System For Linux

06-24-2011, 10:10 AM

Phoronix: Tuxera Claims NTFS Is The Fastest File-System For Linux

Coincidently there's some more file-system news after just writing about the EXT4 and Btrfs file-systems with the Linux 3.0 kernel. A Phoronix reader has pointed out that a developer at Tuxera is claiming their proprietary NTFS Linux kernel driver makes the Microsoft file-system the fastest choice under Linux. Reportedly this kernel driver that implements Microsoft NTFS support is about twice as fast as EXT4, the main Linux file-system of choice right now...

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1. This is probably on an unfragmented filesystem. Given NTFS's tendency to fragment, this performance would never happen in the real world.

2. NTFS doesn't have all that extra security code it needs to run. "Permissions? What's that?"

Uhh, you apparently know nothing about NTFS. NTFS is all about security. It has a more complex permission system than the Unix standard, with more than just read/write/execute, but 7 or 8 different permission types and it is all done via cascading ACLs, rather than the simplistic owner/group/everybody model. As a result, permission checking is slower and more complicated than on standard Unix. There is also per-file encryption and compression, which can further slow things down (if used).

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Uhh, you apparently know nothing about NTFS. NTFS is all about security. It has a more complex permission system than the Unix standard, with more than just read/write/execute, but 7 or 8 different permission types and it is all done via cascading ACLs, rather than the simplistic owner/group/everybody model. As a result, permission checking is slower and more complicated than on standard Unix. There is also per-file encryption and compression, which can further slow things down (if used).

Interesting. So the filesystem has a bunch of security features that a standard home user install of Windows will never use. If everybody is running an Admin account, then what's the point of permissions.